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PublishedOctober 22, 2024
Gray Water District lifts boil water order
The town is advising water residents to flush all water lines and faucets in their homes and discard food, beverages and ice made during the boil order.
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PublishedOctober 8, 2024
Norway Select Board discusses Hobbs Pond survey
Landowners of 54 sites will be notified if their site was identified as contributing to polluted runoff and given links to find information on recommendations and cost estimates to fix the issues.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2024
Toxic foam spreads to pond in wake of Brunswick chemical spill
Foam has been building up in ponds and billowing through the air near Brunswick Landing since 1,600 gallons of fire-suppressing chemical was accidentally released Monday.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2024
Volume of Maine’s storm and sewage overflows more than doubled in 2023
Heavy rains coming in back-to-back storms, sometimes when the ground was frozen, contributed to high levels of untreated storm and sewer water being washed in Maine's rivers and bays last year, resulting in shellfish bed and beach closures.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2023
New wastewater plan makes a splash in Lewiston and Auburn
The Lewiston-Auburn Water Pollution Control Authority has determined the site of a large holding tank that will collect sewage and stormwater overflow during heavy rainfall to help prevent it from going into the Androscoggin River.
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PublishedFebruary 17, 2023
Norway releases preliminary report on Hobbs Pond pollution
Testing showed water was contaminated with cow DNA and E. coli at one of the testing sites.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2023
Vast majority of PFAS tests at Lewiston, Auburn sites show water is safe
State testing for PFAS chemicals so far in Lewiston and Auburn has shown all but one site below the standard that would require remediation.
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PublishedDecember 30, 2022
EPA finalizes water rule that repeals Trump-era changes
The regulations protect hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, repealing a Trump-era rule that federal courts had thrown out and that environmentalists said left waterways vulnerable to pollution.
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PublishedSeptember 24, 2022
50 years after the Clean Water Act, the Androscoggin River has changed dramatically
The river is the cleanest it's been in more than a century.
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PublishedJuly 8, 2022
Maine requires larger communities to step up fight against stormwater pollution
Thirty Maine communities have to meet new stormwater permit requirements that include testing and tighter development rules.
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